Jacob Fox
Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years (result pending a patiently awaited viva exam) while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.
Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
By Jacob Fox published
News Markets ebb and flow, even for massively hyped industries.
People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
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News My Raspberry Pi 5 is mighty jealous, right now.
US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
By Jacob Fox published
News Everyone agrees an all-powerful AI run by one company would be a bad idea.
Intel finally breaks silence, points finger at 'microcode algorithm' voltage errors, and says it's going to patch Core 13th/14th Gen CPU stability issues mid-August
By Jacob Fox published
News Fingers crossed, eh?
Help! The deals on these RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 4070, and RTX 4070 Super gaming PCs are so tasty we're still arguing over which one's best
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Thankfully, for sub-$1,000, $1,200, and $1,600, all three rigs slot into different budget ranges.
33,700,000 motherboards expected to ship in 2024, signaling the end of the PC market's dry spell
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News The four big motherboard manufacturers are expected to ship heaps more this year.
Do temps matter no more? Next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might run as hot as Meteor Lake laptop chips
By Jacob Fox published
News The rumour mill's churning out some spicy but reasonable numbers.
Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s
By Jacob Fox published
News Are memory companies looking for new ways to increase bandwidth to capitalise on the AI boom?
These are our favorite Prime Day PC deals under $100: from monitors to SSDs to RGB lights
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Prime Day Scrape together your remaining pennies because there are some great cheap Prime Day PC gaming deals.
I'd take any one of these discounted retro 8BitDo gamepads over any other Prime Day controller deal you might find today
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day I'd take the retro brand's modernized controllers, too. In fact, just give me the lot, thank you.
So, Jacob 1 and Jacob 2, why do you enjoy Prime Day? In unison: 'Because our fav Sennheiser headphones are 30% off or more.' Thanks, Jacobs
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Prime Day The Jacobs have spoken, and spoken wise words they have.
This $65 Prime Day discount on my all-time favorite lightweight wireless gaming mouse makes me wish I could buy it all over again
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day Still the best lightweight gaming mouse on the market, I'll fight anyone over it.
Our favorite budget gaming chair is a great seat even at full price, and with this discount it's a very, very easy recommendation
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day Soft, wide, and a subtle design. Who could say no to that?
These six 1440p Prime Day gaming monitor deals would have once been high-price panels but today they're less than $200 a pop
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Prime Day And they're not all VA panels, either.
Here are our top 10 pre-Prime Day PC gaming deals, with big discounts on gaming PCs, chairs, GPUs—the whole shebang
By Jacob Fox published
Prime Day You know what they say: The early bird gets all the best PC gaming discounts.
It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
By Jacob Fox published
News Can we call it Infinity Glass? AMD had better jump on that, pronto.
Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
By Jacob Fox published
News 90% of game crash reports in one investigation came from Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPUs. Ouch.
These are the AMD GPUs I'd build a new gaming PC around, starting at just $360. And who says there are no good graphics card deals?
By Jacob Fox published
Deal Ask and ye shall receive, sayeth the red team.
'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
By Jacob Fox published
News Will the ever-inflating AI bubble burst?
Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
By Jacob Fox published
News Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?
Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
By Jacob Fox published
News Do you remember Bulldozer or have you blocked out those dark times, too?
This 1440p 165 Hz ASRock gaming monitor is now cheaper than many at 1080p
By Jacob Fox published
Deal I'd pick one up myself if I were currently in the land of the free. Damn.
'We have won the war on floppy disks!' Japan finally declares independence from floppy media
By Jacob Fox published
News Good news for Japan, bad news for my nostalgic heart.
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